Emi - Log 4

After doing extensive research this week (which i didn't get to do last week) I finally started to put things into Max. I started with the subpatch for the german ships. Firstly I cropped all images I needed into smaller .png files (.png = for the background transparency) as shown in the picture below:

This was laid over a picture of the ship and made to glow in pulses. Clicking the above gun for example brings up information about it - For instance: "This is one of the two dual-barrel turrets which fired 30.5cm explosive shells, this SK-L/50 model was very popular in battleships across the german navy fleet."

My thought is, I'll start from the submenus and then link them all up in the main patch.

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EDIT 27.10:
Will be using today to lay out everything in Max.

Worked out the following standards for the project:

• Font = Georgia (colour code #000033)
  - 18p for Text
  - 30p for Heading (may decrease if heading too big)
• To any text there will be a background of #c3995d with 92% Opacity
• A "more info," "back" and "close" button

• background images will adhere to 1280x1024
• Pop-up windows will conform to 840x400

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Here is a video showing the most recent thing I've worked on:

The pulsating buttons work fine, until the lowest <alpha 1$> -value is reached. It then skips to the highest and then starts the pulse over again. Its supposed to go from 1-0 and then back SMOOTHLY - instead it goes from 1-0, flashes to 1 for a millisecond, and then returns from 0-1... The slow fps in the video doesn't capture it, apologies.

Here is the programming:

For the time being I will leave it in, as it is the best thing i can do, and I'll make the sub-patches for the other ships and then put them together in the German-section- of this installation. Tomorrow I will ask Rob (lecturer) if he can use his magical mastery of mysterious Max MSP to aid me.

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Jed log - making the home screen

Each of the three days in our project is going to have a separate home screen, each set out as a newspaper front page with a map of scarborough on the front. I have been working on the home screen for the day of the attack and putting it together in photoshop cs6.

Image 1

 I started with this image provided by the museum of the front page of a scarborough newspaper (image 1)  and this image of the scarborough sea front from above (image 2).

Image 2

Image 3

Image 4

I then altered the colour of image 2 to attempt to make it look a little more old fashion styled and to keep with the theme. I also brushed out the boats that were on the water. (image 3)











I altered the aspect ratio and I then combined the front page image 1 and image 3 to make the front page of our interface for the day of the attack (image 4).

Research

I've been reading up and looking through the information that has been given to us by the museum. We have split the information three ways, before the attack, during the attack and after the attack. I am researching during the attack so i have been looking into the accounts of the attack itself. I have mainly been using the information provided by the museum and taking the key points as the main aim of our project is to relay this information to people unable to make it around the whole exhibit.

Jed

Emi - Log 3

Last week was 'research week,' in which we went away to gather all the info so we could then focus on putting everything in Max MSP. I was in charge of getting all info on the 'after' of the event and the others would research on the 'before' and 'during

For me, it didn't go as planned, between other uni work and 'work work' I've had very little time so I will be cunducting my research today and we will pool all our info together tomorrow morning.